Books giveaway: Dreamweavers #1 and #2

Te Rā Aro­ha Press are about to launch Isa Pearl Ritchie’s Into the Labyrinth, the sec­ond of her Welling­­ton-based YA Dreamweavers fan­ta­sy series (fol­low­ing on from Awa and the Dreamweavers, released last year). The series fea­tures Awa… …an inter­me­di­ate stu­dent nav­i­gat­ing changes to her fam­i­ly as a child of divorce, mov­ing to a new school, […]

Review: Woop Balance meal

Remem­ber when we reviewed My Food Bag a bunch of years ago? We got approached by anoth­er com­pa­ny, and offered one meal. Unfor­tu­nate­ly, they sent us shrimp. Have I men­tioned late­ly in every sin­gle food review that I’m aller­gic to shell­fish? Luck­i­ly I found a tak­er to make the din­ner instead. Thanks Megan, take it […]

Pig & Pinot — we’re as happy as pigs in mud

As you’re no doubt aware from watch­ing Short­land Street, it’s duck-hunt­ing sea­son. Usu­al­ly this means that Cloudy Bay would be doing duck & pinot noir pair­ings around the coun­try, but this year they’ve decid­ed to do some­thing a lit­tle dif­fer­ent and pos­si­bly a lit­tle more acces­si­ble — pinot noir & pro­sciut­to — “bring­ing you the […]